Teaching
The Postgraduate Certificate in Dental Education is a 60 credit award, offered as two 30-credit modules; Core Skills in Dental Education followed by Supporting Dental Learning offered over one academic year.
The selection and use of learning and teaching methods reflect the educational philosophy of our programmes for medical, dental and healthcare educators.
• Firstly, that our learners' experiences (as learners and as teachers) are a rich resource for their learning.
• Secondly, opportunities to offer and receive feedback, in a range of ways, are vitally important when seeking to develop your practice as an educator.
• Thirdly, exposure to, and critique of, a wide range of educational practices (modelled by faculty) can support students’ development as reflective and reflexive educators.
The award bearing courses are purposefully designed as blended learning programmes, involving synchronous learning opportunities (face to face and on-line) and supported, on-line learning activity.
Teaching sessions introduce concepts, conceptual frameworks and theory relating to the topics being covered and there is online material to complement each session to allow learners to follow these in greater depth after the formal face-to-face sessions. There are also reflective online components and resources, which form part of the teaching material. The reflective components are designed to be interactive to encourage feedback from learners and course tutors. Periods of self-directed study and reading between face-to-face sessions are required and preparation for forthcoming sessions. This is enhanced through the programme’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
| One to one supervision |
None |
|---|---|
| Seminars & classes |
There are approximately 98 contact hours which includes lectures, seminars and classes either online or face-to-face. |
| Lectures |
There are approximately 98 contact hours which includes lectures, seminars and classes either online or face-to-face. |
| Practicals |
Peer review. Observing teaching, being an observer of teaching episodes. Giving feedback in practice. Seven hours per year, in addition to seminars and classes. |
| Small group teaching |
There are approximately 98 contact hours which includes lectures, seminars and classes either online or face-to-face. |
| Literature Reviews |
Assignments may include a requirement to undertake short literature reviews. |
| Posters and Presentations |
Learners may be required to give individual presentations or contribute to group presentations. These are not summatively assessed, however learners will receive constructive feedback. |
| Taught/Research Balance |
Entirely Taught
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Feedback
Learners will receive formative (does not contribute to final mark) feedback throughout the course, along with tutor provided feedback on the submitted summative (will contribute to final mark) assignments.
Assessment
Thesis / Dissertation
There is no thesis component for this course.
Essays
There are two summative assessments, of equal weighting completed at the end of each module.
Each summative is preceded by a formative assessment task, designed to help develop ideas and academic literacies.
The summative assessments will total 9-11,000 words.
Written examination
There is no written examination for this course